Worry about OE in VM on OSX?
Ryan Kline
radryan214 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 03:23:36 CET 2007
> The MacBook Pro is plenty powerful enough to handle what you're doing.
Yup, and I've got two gigs of RAM.
> Now if you want to "bitbake world" then I'd recommend a 40 GB VM
> HD ... just to cover your bases.
What is all this, "world" stuff. I've seen "hello world" also, is it
like a system?
Thanks to everyone who has replied to my posts. You have all been
very helpful. Much more accepting than Apple Discussions.
-ryan
On Feb 12, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Michael Dickens wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Ryan Kline wrote:
>> Thanks, I'm just being too lazy.
>
> Somewhat, but you're also learning. For most things, try google
> (or whatever your favorite search engine is) first, read through a
> few hits, and then if it's still confusing ask the list. Many of
> your non- or semi-technical questions can be answered that way.
>
>> Im pretty scared about this OE thing because I am running Linux on
>> VMWare Beta, on my brand new 17" MacBook Pro...Should I be worried?
>
> There is really nothing to worry about. VMware's Fusion is an App
> that doesn't modify the OS in any significant (i.e. irreversible)
> way; you can always "uninstall" it if you want and you're good to
> go just like it wasn't there (except maybe a pref or 2 that are
> harmless).
>
> As for the VM hard drive, it's just a file that resides on the OSX
> hard drive. You can delete it if you want to, anytime you want to.
>
> If you were running Windows in your VM, then you might worry since
> even with the latest patches it's pretty easy to compromise your
> Windows box if you happen to download certain torrents from certain
> WWW sites. But running Linux in your VM is quite safe - at least
> as safe as running OSX as your host OS.
>
> As a VM user, my primary concerns are (1) that I have enough DRAM
> on the host computer to support both running - 512 MB per user per
> OS is good these days under OSX; (2) that the host hard drive is
> big enough - but pretty much any HD will be big enough these
> days ... the VM HD really needs only maybe 20 GB or so for most
> "usual" things. Now if you want to "bitbake world" then I'd
> recommend a 40 GB VM HD ... just to cover your bases.
>
> The MacBook Pro is plenty powerful enough to handle what you're doing.
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